From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Oct 7 03:48:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA00185 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 03:48:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from barrow.uwaterloo.ca (barrow.uwaterloo.ca [129.97.140.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA00176 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 03:48:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sgkruk@barrow.uwaterloo.ca) Received: from localhost (sgkruk@localhost) by barrow.uwaterloo.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA18238; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 06:47:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 06:47:33 -0400 (EDT) From: "Serge G. Kruk" To: Eivind Eklund cc: Heinz Bauschke , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, "Serge G. Kruk" , Heinz Bauschke Subject: Re: possible contribution to handbook In-Reply-To: <19981006224813.54674@follo.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org That is a good suggestion, I agree. Though I don't know exactly how I would do that. But I still think that the handbook should include a section on Maple, if only because it has a section on Mathematica. I'll look into creating that port. Any hints? Thanks. S. On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 02:20:06PM -0400, Heinz Bauschke wrote: > > > > TITLE: How to Install Maple on FreeBSD > > > > LOCATION: should go as 23.3 in the Linux Emulation Section. > > > > CONTRIBUTED BY: Heinz Bauschke (bauschke@cecm.sfu.ca) and > > Serge Kruk (sgkruk@acm.org) > > > > We describe how to set up Maple for FreeBSD in eight easy steps. > > We tried this procudere for Maple V Release 5 on CD Rom for > > Linux for FreeBSD 2.2.6 and 2.2.7. > > I would suggest making a non-packagable port of Maple. This would > take care of all the steps, and make it easy to both install and > de-install. > > This is somewhat more work than just putting it in the handbook, but > would IMO be a better way of integrating it. > > Is this a feasible project for you? > > Eivind. > > /* ==== Serge G. Kruk ======================================= sgkruk@acm.org ==== Combinatorics & Optimization, Faculty of Mathematics ==== University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1 ====== */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message